Toronto municipal election, 1926

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Municipal elections were held in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1926. Thomas Foster was reelected mayor.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Thomas Foster (Canadian politician) Mayor of Toronto

Thomas Foster was the Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1925 to 1927.

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Toronto mayor

Thomas Foster had first been elected to city council in 1891 and was running for his second consecutive term as mayor. He was opposed by former Controller R.H. Cameron, but won easy reelection. The central issue was whether the suburban radial lines, such as the Toronto and York Radial Railway, should be taken away from Toronto Hydro and merged into the Toronto Transportation Commission. While Cameron, the main advocate of the position, lost the election the policy was enacted in 1927.

R.H. Cameron

Robert Henderson Cameron was a Toronto manufacturer and politician. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1867 and came to Canada as a child with his family in the early 1870s.

Toronto and York Radial Railway

The Toronto and York Radial Railway was a transit operator providing services to the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was a subsidiary of the Toronto Railway Company. The company was created by merging four Toronto-area railway operations. The company was part of the empire of railway entrepreneurs Sir William Mackenzie and Donald Mann which included the Canadian Northern Railway and the parent Toronto Railway Company.

Toronto Hydro

Toronto Hydro is the second-largest municipal electricity distribution company in Canada, serving approximately 769,000 customers in the city of Toronto, Ontario. It distributes approximately 18% of the electricity consumed in the Province of Ontario.

Results
Thomas Foster - 47,771
R.H. Cameron - 38,045
Samuel Fieldhouse - 916

Board of Control

There was one change in the membership of the Board of Control. Alderman Sam McBride made his first run for the Board and finished second. This pushed William D. Robbins into fifth and off the board.

The Board of Control of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a part of its municipal government until it was abolished in 1969. It served as the executive committee of the Toronto City Council, consisting of four "controllers" elected citywide and presided over by the Mayor. Beginning in 1904, the Board of Control was directly elected by the city's electorate. Each voter could vote for up to four candidates, and the four with the most votes were elected. By tradition the controller who received the most votes would get the powerful budget chief position.

Sam McBride Canadian politician

Sam (Samuel) McBride was a two-time Mayor of Toronto serving his first term from 1928 to 1929 and his second term in 1936 which ended prematurely due to his death. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.

William D. Robbins Canadian mayor

William Dullam Robbins was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also a member of the Conservative Party. He served 18 years on city council and the Board of Control before becoming mayor. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. He died after years of ill health at his Toronto home in 1952.

Results
Joseph Gibbons (incumbent) - 37,608
Sam McBride - 36,211
A.E. Hacker (incumbent) - 31,427
D.C. MacGregor (incumbent) - 30,975
William D. Robbins (incumbent) - 30,320
William C. McBrien - 29,923
Bert Wemp - 28,024
Frank Whetter - 21,722
W.E. Hamilton - 2,590

City council

Ward 1 (Riverdale)
W.A. Summerville (incumbent) - 6,359
George J. Smith (incumbent) - 6,252
Robert Luxton (incumbent) - 5,158
Richard Honeyford - 4,179
Robert Allen - 2,548
Ward 2 (Cabbagetown and Rosedale)
John Winnett (incumbent) - 5,857
Charles A. Risk (incumbent) - 5,606
John R. Beamish - 5,501
Charles Reed - 3,753
Ward 3 (Central Business District and The Ward)
Harry W. Hunt (incumbent) - 5,463
J. George Ramsden (incumbent) - 4,785
Andrew Carrick - 4,262
William Beaton - 3,716
Wallace Kennedy - 1,916
Ward 4 (Kensington Market and Garment District)
Ian Macdonnell - 4,588
Nathan Phillips (incumbent) - 4,292
Samuel Factor - 2,570
William Hevey - 2,577
John Young - 811
Ward 5 (Trinity-Bellwoods)
Clifford Blackburn (incumbent) - 6,539
William James Stewart (incumbent) - 6,125
Benjamin Miller (incumbent) - 5,191
Phinnemore - 3,407
John Macdonald - 1,596
Ward 6 (Davenport and Parkdale)
Samuel Thomas Wright (incumbent) - 8,951
John Laxton (incumbent) - 6,791
John Boland - 6,312
William Willard - 5,121
William Maltby - 4,712
Richard Tuthill - 3,028
James Black - 829
James Muldowney - 667
Ward 7 (West Toronto Junction)
W.A. Baird (incumbent) - 4,451
Samuel Ryding (incumbent) - 4,283
William C. Davidson - 3,989
Alexander Chisholm - 3,219
Hall - 398
Barnetson - 252
Ward 8 (East Toronto)
Robert Baker (incumbent) - 6,900
Walter Howell - 5,587
Robert Dibble (incumbent) - 5,587
William Robertston (incumbent) - 4,994
Joseph Turner - 2,779
Isaac Pimblett - 2,195
Albert Burnese - 3,348

Results taken from the January 2, 1926 Toronto Daily Star and might not exactly match final tallies.

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